Blake in the Marketplace, 2010
Robert N. Essick


The illustrations below are color versions of those in the sales review in Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 116-42. Click on the thumbnail to open a larger image in a separate window.

1. “Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims.” Etching/engraving, 4th st. with the drypoint inscriptions left and right of the title. Image in this impression 30.3 x 94.0 cm. Laid paper without watermark, chain lines 3.9 cm. apart, leaf trimmed within the platemark at the top and on both sides to 36.0 x 94.8 cm. Etched and engraved 1810, this st. executed and this impression printed c. 1823-26. Essick collection.
"Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims"
2. “Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims.” Details of the drypoint inscriptions left and right of the title in the impression in illus. 1.
"Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims": drypoint inscriptions
3. “Holy Thursday,” pl. 19 from Songs of Innocence. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, posthumous copy h, printed in light orange ink c. 1831-32. 11.6 x 7.9 cm. Essick collection.
"Holy Thursday"
4. Unsigned illus. to Blake’s “Holy Thursday” (Songs of Innocence) published in [Ann and Jane Taylor], City Scenes, or a Peep into London (London: Darton, Harvey & Darton, 1818), following p. 66 (Blake’s poem printed in letterpress on 67-68). Etching/engraving, image 5.5 x 7.3 cm. Essick collection.
Illus. to "Holy Thursday" in City Scenes
5. Unsigned illus. to Blake’s “Holy Thursday” (Songs of Innocence) published in [Ann and Jane Taylor], City Scenes, or a Peep into London (London: Harvey & Darton, 1828), following p. 66 (Blake’s poem printed in letterpress on 69). Etching/engraving, image 4.4 x 7.1 cm. Essick collection.
6. “Cheapside—Children from the Parochial and Ward Schools going to St. Paul’s” (letterpress caption). An illus. to Anon., “Educational Charities,” Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 6.358 (30 Sept.-31 Oct. 1837): 420-24 (this illus. on 424). Unsigned wood engraving, image 10.5 x 15.1 cm. Essick collection.
"Cheapside: Children from the Parochial and Ward Schools going to St. Paul's"
7 and 8. Portrait of William Blake. Watercolor, image and leaf 31.4 x 19.4 cm. Inscribed on the verso in brown ink, just below the top edge of the leaf, “A Portrait of William Blake at Shoreham.” Thin laid paper, chain lines 2.65 cm. apart, with a large crown and Britannia watermark. Essick collection.
Portrait of William Blake
 
Portrait of William Blake: verso inscription

Posted 16 March 2011